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Show Bliss To Replace Burch For Unity, Says Goldie Dean Burch will go the way of Nikita Khrushchev and the word comes from the man who hand-picked Burch as Republican Repub-lican national chairman, fellow Arizonan Barry M. Goldwater. UNLIKE THE near-forgotten Russian leader, though, Burch was roundly praised for his service to the party. In an admitted move for Republican Re-publican unity, Goldwater issued the announcement from his hilltop hill-top home in Phoenix. At his side, along with Burch and William E. Miller, party 1964 Vice-Presidential candidate, candi-date, stood Ray Bliss of Ohio who will replace Burch. The decision was revealed how in an apparent move to prevent a party showdown at the January 22 meeting of the National Republican Re-publican committee in Chicago. BURCH CLAIMED again Tuesday Tues-day that he could have survived any attempt by the national committee com-mittee to oust him, but that he would probably not have received re-ceived a "clear working mandate." man-date." Goldwater praised Burch for effective service and for "raising "rais-ing more money in a short time than any chairman in history" and for putting together a "working organization in most of the states." Bliss' assention was described by Goldwater as in the "best interest of our party and country." Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisen-hower, Dick Nixon and top leaders of the party support the move, according to Gold-water. Gold-water. Burch said he would function actively as chairman until Bliss succeeds him on April 1. |
